UT 2003 Bonus Pack Interview
Posted by Marcel Klum on 27 November 2002 - 09:01 · 7 comments & 510 views
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#1 Posted by Jasco on 27 Nov 2002 - 09:56
- mmmmmmmm
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#2 Posted by vermaati on 27 Nov 2002 - 10:37
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#3 Posted by Fubar on 27 Nov 2002 - 11:04
- nice. hope it goes well :/
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#4 Posted by jerichohol on 27 Nov 2002 - 14:46
- finally, need some more good official maps for ut2003 (quake3 ++)
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#5 Posted by Chipi on 27 Nov 2002 - 17:30
- hmm! interesting!
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#6 Posted by mr_da3m0n on 27 Nov 2002 - 17:57
- At first when I read the title I pictured someone from homelan speaking to a zip disk... don't ask why.
HomeLAN - What is the current status of the bonus pack, when will it be released and how large will the download be?
Cliff Bleszinski - We're playing the maps on a regular basis but it is hard to gauge when they'll be done. In case you haven't noticed, we're pretty crappy at predicting dates. The download should be fairly hefty, as there is a LOT of new art content in this pack. Grease up your cable modems!
HomeLAN - What can you tell us about the next patch for UT 2003?
Cliff Bleszinski - Demo recording is being worked on for it and it fixes a good handful of minor issues.
But with songs averaging 4 to 5mb (depending on the quality) and downloadable movies running somewhere between 400 to 600mb, this severly limits the amount of movies and songs that a user who once thought of broadband as the "you-can-eat connections to the Net".
Critics of the bandwidth caps on broadband connections worry that various internet annoyances would eat into their monthly bandwidth quotas, some of which are wholly out of the control of subscribers. Annoyances such as; Web pop-up ads or pornographic spam e-mail messages; ad-supported software programs such as the Opera Web browser could take another bite at the cap without subscribers' approval and some have even raised the specter of malicious attacks, in which streams of traffic could be sent to a computer or series of computers by an outsider (on a non-capped high speed link), pushing the targeted accounts over their monthly limit without any action on the part of the subscribers.
No US cable company has yet announced that it is imposing bandwidth caps, but most say it's an option. "It's something we're looking at," said Jenni Moyer, a spokeswoman for the newly merged Comcast Communications and AT&T Broadband, which together comprise the largest cable ISP. Cox Communications says that they already attempt to identifies customers who are using large amounts of bandwidth for any reason and tries to encourage them to move to a more expensive tier of service. DSL providers seem to be less interested in the idea, with SBC Communications saying that the company did not see heavy file-swapping activity as "a problem to be resolved."